City Jail and Firehouse

This Romanesque/Classical Revival building was constructed in 1895 and served as both a fire station (on the first floor) and the City jail (on the second). It is one of the two buildings facing the Courthouse Plaza that survived the ...

Major Elbert Dickason / Dickason's "Hotel"

Major Elbert Dickason

Major Elbert Dickason founder of Wyocena, was born in Virginia in 1799. He moved to Illinois where he joined their militia during the Black Hawk War. Representing a Milwaukee land investor, he founded Columbus in 1839. When his ...

Joao Rodrigues Cabrilho 1542

Ao-Navegador-Portugues

To the Portuguese Navigator

Joao-Rodrigues Cabrilho

A tribute from the Portuguese Navy

Courtesy hmdb.org

John Sparks

Trail Blazer and Frontiersman

As a private in the infantry of the 1st United States Regiment, and during the years 1805 to 1807, John Sparks (1758-1846) acted as guide, scout, and hunter for the two expeditions of Zebulon Pike, which helped ...

Monsignor John Joseph Jessing

Monsignor John Joseph Jessing, founder of the Pontifical College Josephinum, was born in Germany in 1836. He immigrated to America and, in 1870, was ordained a priest in Columbus. He published a newspaper, the Ohio Waisenfreund (Ohio Orphans' Friend), raising ...

Jacob Brown

About one mile S.W., this pioneer from S.C. settled on Nolichucky River in 1771. Brown's purchase of 2 tracts of land from the Cherokee on March 25, 1775, was made beneath a great oak tree still standing nearby. His sandstone ...

John Muir Country

It was over this road that John Muir traveled to such early settlements as Kingston and Pardeeville. Muir was eleven when he came here from Scotland with his father, brother and sister in 1849. His mother arrived with her other ...

John E. Curry Jr.

-1899- -1990-

A President and the longest serving

member of this commission 1949 – 1988

Patron of the Arts – Public Servant –

Musician – Impresario

He made a notable contribution to

the cultural life of the region

Dedicated by his friend Richard J. Hughes

Governor and Chief ...

John Alexander Campbell

-1856- -1938-

First President and Chairman of the Board

of the Soldiers and Sailors’ War Memorial

Building Commission

Industrialist Banker Philanthropist

whose kindly wisdom made his a happier generation

Erected by his associates from all walks of life

Dedicated by his friend, A. Harry Moore, Governor of ...

James Kerney

-1873- -1934-

Appointed Director of American Committee on

Public Information in France during the World War

by President Woodrow Wilson

Patriot Journalist Jurist

whose pen defended his nation

counseled her citizens

sought her peace

Erected by Trenton Post No. 93 American Legion

Dedicated by his friend General John ...